Teletype · Portland to Director re interviews of finders of the ransom money · 20 February 1980 · page 5 of 6AIType, title and date: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
Document date 20 February 1980AIDates: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 43 p. 181 (DB Cooper-17386), Teletype, dated 20 Feb 1980, serial SE 164-81-8226 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-43/pages/181
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PAGE FIVE PD 184-41 UNCLAS
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ON FEBRUARY 20, 1980, [REDACTED] TELE-
PHONICALLY CONTACTED SA [REDACTED] ADVISING THAT SHE HAD
HEARD ON THE RADIO THAT THE FBI WAS MAKING AN AWARD TO [REDACTED]
FOR HAVING FOUND THE MONEY. SHE WANTED TO CONFIRM THIS. SHE
WAS TOLD THAT THE PORTLAND DIVISION HAD NO SUCH INFORMATION.
SHE THEN ASKED IF [REDACTED] HAD VISITED THE PORTLAND OFFICE,
WHICH WAS ACKNOWLEDGED, AND SHE ASKED IF [REDACTED] BROUGHT ANYTHING
WITH HER, AND THIS WAS ACKNOWLEDGED, AND SHE THEN ASKED HOW MANY,
AND WAS TOLD FOUR. SHE THEN SAID THAT SHE AND [REDACTED] HAD KEPT
TWO BILLS EACH FROM THE RANSOM MONEY FOUND FOR SOUVENIRS NOT
REALIZING WHAT IT WAS, AND THAT WHEN THE CIRCUMSTANCES WERE EX-
PLAINED TO THEM, THEY, [REDACTED], RETURNED THE MONEY TO THE
PORTLAND FBI OFFICE. [REDACTED] THEN REITERATED THE
ACCOUNT PREVIOUSLY FURNISHED BY [REDACTED] AS TO THE
FINDING OF THE MONEY BY [REDACTED] AND STATED THAT [REDACTED]
WAS NOT AT THE POINT PLAYING WITH [REDACTED] WHEN THE MONEY WAS FOUND.
SHE STATED THAT THERE HAS BEEN SOME ANIMOSITY IN THE FAMILY INASMUCH
AS [REDACTED]